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We Started Here

post from ioby.org We Started Here is ioby’s multimedia storytelling series exploring the work of neighborhood leaders across the country. Video and photography by Dan Lane and Erin Moore of GoodEye Video. Written by Tobin Hack. When Justin Moore thinks of his grandfather, he sees him hard at work on a “project,” pouring and forming concrete in […]

FREE Redbud Tree Giveaway October 17th! Sign up today!

Using funds from our 5×5 Indy grant and working with the Purdue Extension, Urban Patch will be providing FREE redbud trees for Mapleton-Fall Creek residents and businesses on Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Please use our online contact form to REQUEST A TREE. Below is the link  to inform you of the project and to […]

From Food Desert to Urban Oasis

We hear a lot about food deserts that impact many of our urban communities throughout the United States. At Urban Patch we are developing an initiative that will take on this critical issue with our local community and local farmers.  As we develop the program we hope to make a real and immediate impact on […]

Interdependence

Interdependence consist of one large star sculpture (six interlocking pieces) in a small urban pocket park located in Indianapolis. Interdependence is meant to provoke people to see and appreciate the invisible people and places in their lives—those people and places we encounter every day but are invisible to us. The quiet kid in school, the […]

On Loving Our Cities

Justin Garrett Moore of Urban Patch gave a talk at CreativeMornings Indianapolis, April 2015. Topics discussed included cities, humility, love, and even gentrification. The presentation also highlighted our Indy Redbud Project. Free events like this one are hosted every month in dozens of cities. Discover hundreds of talks from the world’s creative community at http://creativemornings.com/talks

We Started Here

We have had an incredible year at Urban Patch. Thanks to many friends, collaborators and organizations we think we have made real progress in making the inner city better.  One of our earliest collaborators and supporters is ioby.org, a national organization that does crowd funding and resourcing for urban and environmental projects. In fact, our […]

Urban Patch Selected for Indy’s Plan 2020 CityCorps Fellowship Program

National and Local Thought Leaders to Address Indy’s Opportunities New Fellowship program to work with Plan 2020 to apply research and data to city-building projects INDIANAPOLIS – Ten emerging leaders from Indianapolis and around the country will address some of the opportunities and challenges facing Marion County as part of Plan 2020’s CityCorps Fellowship Program. […]

“10 Words” Mural at Forest Manor Service Center

We recently helped create and install a new urban art project at the Forest Manor Service Center with United Way of Central Indianapolis’ #GenNow leadership volunteers.

Fall Creek Gardens & Urban Patch Winter Solstice Celebration

 

Re-Booting the Inner City: National Preservation Conference Recap

Last month we hosted as a part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation National Conference in Indianapolis a community-based field session. As a result of the workshop we wanted to share the results that focused on neighborhood partnerships  and preservation strategies. We hope that this might encourage further work both in the Mapleton-Fall Creek community […]